From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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To: | Jim Mercer <jim(at)reptiles(dot)org> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au> |
Subject: | Re: hacker help: PHP-4.2.3 patch to allow restriction of |
Date: | 2002-09-28 11:08:36 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0209281249350.1149-100000@localhost.localdomain |
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Jim Mercer writes:
> ideally, i'd like to have users-per-database, as opposed to the global
> model we have now.
That's in the works. Some form of this will be in 7.3.
> if we are willing to modify libpq to support a "white-list", then what you
> are suggesting is quite possible.
How would you store such a list and prevent users from simply unsetting
it?
> i suspect the php-dev people are unhappy with my patch because it is including
> logic (ie. parsing the white-list) which they don't think php should be
> responsible for.
From my reading of the discussion, I think they have not understood that
the PostgreSQL server has no way to distinguish different virtual host
identities. I think your feature is quite reasonable, if you list users
instead of databases.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
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